Education & Training

AIDS Care Rounds

The BC-CfE provides a free lecture twice a month at St. Paul’s Hospital directed at health care professionals treating and managing HIV/AIDS patients.

Click here for video archives of the AIDS Care Rounds

Forefront Lecture Series

The BC-CfE's Forefront Lecture Series is a free lunchtime lecture series that takes place once a month at St. Paul's Hospital. The series features lectures by speakers currently working within the field of HIV/AIDS. For more information please contact Andrea Keesey.

HIV Diagnosis and Management Update

This event is part of a series of initiatives that the BC CfE is conducting to support primary care providers who wish to improve their skills in the management of HIV-positive individuals. For more information please contact Afshan Nathoo.  To view slides from the most recent Update, which took place on October 26, 2010, please click here.

HIV/ARV Biannual Update

This is an open educational event sponsored by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and accredited by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. The Fall HIV/Antiretroviral Update took place on Friday Dec 3, 2010.  The next update will take place June 20, 2011. (View Event)

Interdisciplinary HIV/AIDS Health Sciences Elective

The BC-CfE coordinates a graduate course in HIV/AIDS at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (HSCI 471), which is open to inter-disciplinary students enrolled in graduate studies.

Inter-Professional Elective in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care

The BC-CfE coordinates an undergraduate course in HIV/AIDS at the University of British Columbia's College of Health Disciplines (IHHS 402), which is open to students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work and nutrition.

Preceptorship Program at the Immunodeficiency Clinic (post-graduate level)

We have developed a post-graduate HIV/AIDS Preceptorship Program for physicians and family practice residents. The program consists of a three-month rotation or equivalent time at the Immunodeficiency Clinic (IDC) at St. Paul's Hospital. Physicians participate in the primary care of HIV patients in the IDC under the direction of an experienced HIV physician. Physicians spend half of the time in the primary care clinic and the other half in elective HIV specialist clinics, the outpatient pharmacy, the AIDS inpatient ward, research clinics, and teaching rounds.